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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (3892)	1/16/2008 7:33:38 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

You apparently look at the health care insurance system as if its nearly certainly the biggest variable or is somehow special, but there is really no reason to think it is. Its just a 17th variable, and it might even be one of the smaller ones. There are two reasons it's THE key variable. 1) Access - if a large portion of the population doesn't have access to regular care you are going to have inferior overall result. 2) Expense - if your system is double the cost an even larger portion of the population, those with high deductible insurance, will forego care and you will have inferior overall results. With the sixteen other variables, you would think that in at least some the US would rank in the upper quintile. If we are in the bottom quintiles in all then I guess we live in a pretty crappy country and maybe we should work on more social change.